You want to be a Unity3D game developer?

Comments Off on You want to be a Unity3D game developer?By: AdministratorDate: March 18, 2014Tagged: App, Free, Ios, Risorse

Unity3D has been making great strides of late, it’s has been one of the big go-to middleware engines for budding iOS and Android game developers and even expanded its reach to Web, Windows desktop and other platforms.

It’s recent Microsoft partnerships have also been making big waves and have spurred on its adoption, introducing both the Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 platforms and more recently with the announcement of Xbox One support, best of all it’s completely free for all Microsoft platforms.

Unity3D comes in three flavours:

Unity3D Trial

When you first download Unity3D and setup a new account you get access to all of Unities tools and accessories that are included in the Pro version for 30 days, after that it will revert to the Free version or you can pay for Pro.

Unity3D Free

As it says on the box, this is the default Free tier for Unity, you get access to the editor and all the basic features, however some advanced performance, profiling and graphics features are disabled. You can still make one heck of a game if you do it right and it’s perfect while you are learning Unity. But once your game gets beyond a certain size you may find the lack of the pro features limiting.

Unity3D Pro

Basically every tool and feature of Unity at your disposal including LOD support, texture batching, asset streaming, custom splash screens, 3D textures and HDR, the list goes on – see Unity Pro detail page for more details and a comparison of the Pro vs Free features.

So how to get started?

As with my Monster links post, I’ve compiled an extensive list of resources at your disposable on your Unity3D journey, split up in to sections to allow you to target what you need.